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Early Years Practitioner / Teaching Assistant

The Meadows Primary Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST3 3AZ

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• Start date details

  Jan 2024

• Closing date

  4 December 2023 at 9am

• Date listed

  17 November 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern:
  • Full time - (Term Time only plus 5 INSET days) Working Hours: 36.25 hours p.w (Mon –Wed 8.15am – 4pm, Thurs 8.15am – 4.30pm, Fri 8.15am – 3.30pm)
  • Part time - (Term Time only plus 5 INSET days) Working Hours: 36.25 hours p.w (Mon –Wed 8.15am – 4pm, Thurs 8.15am – 4.30pm, Fri 8.15am – 3.30pm)
• Contract type: Fixed term - FTC - Ends 31st August 2024
• Full-time equivalent salary: Grade 4, SCP 13-16 - £23,115 - £23,893
• Actual salary: Actual Salary: £19,738.15 - £20,402.84

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Meadows Primary Academy is an ambitious and inclusive community school with passion for delivering high quality education. Our staff are innovative, hardworking and motivated. We are seeking to appoint multiple staff across our school to assist our brilliant teachers and support our wonderful children.

• EYP – Working in our Nursery classroom – experience of leading a carpet and being able to deliver small group sessions would be beneficial.
• TA – KS1 working to support in our KS1 classes and supporting some of our KS1 SEN children
• TA – Upper Key Stage 2 support to help fill gaps in learning – experience of running small group interventions would be advantageous.

Please state within the supporting section of you application form which role you would like to be considered for, depending on your experience and interest.

We welcome applications from individuals, who care about people and are able to form strong relationships. They will motivate and inspire others to strive for the best.

We are looking for someone who is:

• An experienced teaching assistant who has a wide range of experience across all age groups
• knowledgeable about a range of SEN issues and has the experience and motivation to support those learners.
• Committed to working with staff and students to help them achieve their potential
• Able to create a culture and ethos where all students can achieve success and become engaged in their own learning
• Creative and able to embrace the challenges of The Meadows
• An excellent communicator and demonstrates openness and honesty
• An excellent team player who enjoys working collaboratively
• Able to inspire and motivate children and staff
• Highly skilled in managing personal interactions
• Resilient under pressure

What the school offers its staff

In return for dedication, we can offer:

• Child focused team and environment,
• Incredible community of children, parents and carers who deserve only the best,
• Balanced approach to wellbeing and workload,
• Commitment to quality CPD, development and opportunities due to further school growth.

Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.

Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:

• An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
• Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
• Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.

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About The Meadows Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 363 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: The Meadows Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-meadows-primary-academy (opens in new tab)

The Meadows Primary Academy (formerly Blurton Primary School), situated in Blurton, Stoke-on-Trent, joined the Shaw Education Trust family on 1st January 2020. At The Meadows, every child is encouraged to believe in themselves and to have high aspirations. Through promoting a positive attitude combined with a strong work ethic; our children know that they can do well in life if they work hard and aim high. This is woven into everything that we do through our core values of respect, positivity and collective responsibility. We have a dynamic team of exceptional teachers and support staff who act as exemplary role models, educating and nurturing each child, enabling them to achieve high standards of academic attainment whilst also enabling them to become capable, caring and confident human beings. Also, over the past five years, we have achieved our aim of becoming an Attachment Aware School. Through this, we are committed to working to establish attachment-like relationships with our children, particularly with challenging and vulnerable children, in order to improve their chances of learning and achieving.

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